by Philip Eliot | May 28, 2025 | Literary |
Longlisted for the 2025 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and Named to Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2024 “Head Fake is about how laughter can save us.” —Chris Rock, comedian, actor”An absorbing, uplifting tale of finding light and self-worth in adversity’s darkest depths.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Mikey makes everything a joke, even the clinical depression he’s struggled with for years. After a run of failed jobs, he becomes the unlikely basketball coach at a high school for high-risk offenders who are experiencing mental illness. The position becomes suddenly available after the team tried to strangle their last coach.Every instinct tells Mikey to get as far away from this school as possible. Coaching these kids, who have been arrested for who-knows-what, would be difficult for a normie. For Mikey, it could cause another breakdown and force him right back to living on the street. But he knows that if he has any chance to make his twenty-sixth birthday, he needs to keep this job, even if the school board wants him fired, and the students would rather fight each other than play ball.This poignant, hilarious, and sometimes uncomfortable novel proves that even the most damaged of us can emerge victorious.
by Philip Eliot | May 28, 2025 | Christian Fiction |
USA Today–Bestselling Author: She thought she’d be shunned—but found open arms and loving hearts . . . After two years away, Katie Lantz returns to her Amish community nine months pregnant—and unmarried. With nowhere else to turn, she nervously knocks on her family’s door, fearing she’ll be shunned. Yet the handsome stranger who now owns the farm welcomes her in—just in time for Katie to give birth. Carpenter Elam Sutter and his kindly mother care for Katie and her newborn in a loving way she never dreamed was possible. But in the face of a heart-wrenching choice, Katie will learn just what family, faith, and acceptance truly mean . . . Praise for Patricia Davids’ novels“Uplifting . . . will have fans of Amish romance eager to read more from Davids.” —Publishers Weekly“Patricia writes with heart, integrity and hope. Her stories both entertain and edify—the perfect combination.” —Kim Vogel Sawyer, bestselling author of The Tapestry of Grace
by Philip Eliot | May 28, 2025 | Christian Fiction |
New York Times Bestseller: A “beautifully written” and “truly outstanding” novel based on the life of Paul the Apostle (The Cincinnati Enquirer). Born a veritable great lion of God to a devout Jewish family, Saul of Tarsus is raised by his parents to embrace their love of humanity. Dogged by what he perceives as a lack of true faith, he embarks on a journey to save his people from sacrilege. But on the road to Damascus a vision of the resurrected Jesus changes the course of his life. Converting to Christianity, the newly christened Paul transforms from persecutor of blasphemers into apostle to the gentiles, becoming one of the supreme influences on the Catholic Church and the Western world. Great Lion of God paints a unique and very human portrait of Saint Paul, one of the most passionate, dauntless, and complex figures of early Christianity—Pharisee, lawyer, theologian, and above all, a “man like ourselves with our own despairs, doubts, anxieties and angers and intolerances, and ‘lusts of the flesh.’” The central novel in author Taylor Caldwell’s biblical trilogy, which also includes Dear and Glorious Physician and I, Judas, Great Lion of God is both “sheer entertainment” and a moving tribute to the majesty and power of the Christian faith (Fort Worth Star-Telegram). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Taylor Caldwell including rare images from the author’s estate.
by Philip Eliot | May 28, 2025 | Christian Fiction |
They’ll always be friends, but they can never be more. Dawson Keller has held a torch for his best friend’s little sister for as long as he can remember. He might be a flirt, but his heart will always belong to Olivia.Olivia Lawrence lives to serve others and work on the family farm. Helping people and tending animals keep her mind off the one thing she wants but can’t have—a family.Her brother’s best friend might joke that they’re meant to be, but he doesn’t know how little she has to offer a husband. Especially a man like Dawson who loves kids and makes everyone laugh.On top of that, Olivia’s best friend is head over heels for Dawson, and hurting her friend is out of the question.Dawson keeps showing up to save her at all the wrong times. From a disastrous wedding date to an unfortunate camping incident, Dawson is always there when Olivia needs him.When Dawson finds out her secret, and her friend feels betrayed, Olivia is at risk of losing them both.If you loved the Blackwater Ranch series and the Wolf Creek Ranch series, get ready to fall in love all over again in Blackwater, Wyoming.
by Philip Eliot | May 27, 2025 | Thriller & Suspense |
Claire’s scream instantly transformed Damon’s nomadic existence. Army snipers do not scream. Not in an ordinary world. But the world hadn’t been normal since the first corpse became a ‘redhead’ statistic.
Now it was Claire’s turn…
It was known that victims lived only 51 days.
It was known that millions had died in prison cells.
It was known that the government was dragging children from their homes.
But the known unknowns beckoned…
Unknown if transmitted by air, contact, flea or mosquito.
Unknown if manmade, mutation of evolution, or alien hitchhiker.
Unknown if neighbor will betray neighbor to collect bounties from Uncle Sam.
And the purveyors of conspiracy…
Social media shouts, “These are the new lepers!”
What might be growing in an unknown lab at an unknown location?!
Elites are suppressing immediate answers in the hope of future profit!
…of course, unknown unknowns lurk in the shadows.
Damon had ridden a motorcycle through a typhoon ravaged jungle. Landed in Washington with money-power at his fingertips. Witnessed a missile attack and landmine explosion. Then…Claire screamed.
Leaving Damon seven weeks and two days to do the impossible via the improbable and reveal the unthinkable.
But standing in Claire’s condo, as the echo of her voice fades into the deserted streets of the District of Columbia, he knows they have only one option…
FLEE!
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